Methane Hydrate Site Immediately Offshore New Orleans,LA. Breaching Through Napoleon Salt Dome? The Smoking Gun.

My hometown! :-(

Reading this makes one want to become a sheep again, but there is no turning back once you open your eyes.

Thanks for the perserverance El Q, good info on our immenent doom.

wow Matt Simmons was right.

what is going on down under the GOM now.

i guess we just site and watch the play out in freaking slow motion.

nice find OP

Matt Simmons, RIP - he was one of my heroes during the BP fracture fiasco. So, psyoptics, you were familiar with his work, which of his videos might add to the discussion here? I think.... he clearly was trying to get the word out about this scenario on Dylan Ratigan and other TV programs, right? Thanks for your input.

A massive methane hydrate release is an ELE.

Lots of good info in this thread:

Thread: Massive Methane LEAK in Arctic sea - the End is Nigh

Hi El Q, this looks very important, I'm not familiar with this Methane Hydrate so I don't know how to analyse, but thanks for posting.

I agree. Great job, OP.

I think often about Simmons.

What did he know?

phase 2 of opening the North American Union Causeway from the gulf to Canada is complete with Sandy...begin phase 3...dont worry citizens, we are Geo-engineering the causeway, one step at a time...

Well, I figure that it could only be one of three things:

1. Deepwater "blowout" was due to human error, they are attempting to deal with situations as they arise, and they are really not sure what is going to happen.

2. They were aware of building stress and fracturing which would eventually lead to catastrophic methane release, salt dome infiltration, cascading faultline rips, land subsidence and seawater inundation. They were attempting to mitigate these effects by systematic controlled-release of these stress forces.

3. They are directly attempting to cause the effects of #2.

I have a small history in geology and I do believe they are related.

This incident is exactly what this sinkhole reminds of.

It's believed to have occurred in the past.

Thanks, El Q for getting all of this together on one thread!

Great Info

5* and

^^this

Gas Hydrate in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Has Puzzling Characteristics and Could Pose a Hazard to Deep Drilling

[link to soundwaves.usgs.gov]

Gulf Stream Shift Linked to Methane Gas Escaping from Seabeds
The new work could reinvigorate a debate on the risk of methane release from the oceans and whether destabilized hydrates make the continental slopes more unstable

[link to www.scientificamerican.com]

Related:


Gulf Stream might be releasing seafloor methane
Greenhouse gas may be flowing into ocean waters off U.S. east coast

[link to www.sciencenews.org]

Here's some proof that the gas is escaping:

On October 17, a survey by undersea vehicles found "intermittent drops of oil" coming from an 86-ton metal cofferdam that BP attempted to lower onto the Macondo well in May 2010 to funnel the oil to the surface. BP engineers aborted the plan after methane hydrates, a flammable form of frozen natural gas, began collecting on the cofferdam. The cofferdam was abandoned on the ocean floor.

Great information OP! Thanks for posting this.
I do believe they have created a methane monster!

Posted this a few weeks ago in the Assumption thread. Several documents in that thread you should check out, you will like them. here are a few.





Gas Migration: Events Preceding Earthquakes:
[link to books.google.com]


The Anatomy of a Silent Disaster: Ongoing Subsidence and Inundation of the Northern Margin of the Gulf of Mexico Basin
[link to biotech.law.lsu.edu]

I am inclined to say I believe you are right . . .

not for much longer

either leave or go poof

Is there no solution? Granted, vested interests would have to acknowledge the problem first, but lets say it is acknowledged clear across the board--government, oil execs, scientists, citizens.

What are the possible interventions or repairs that could prevent mass doomage both in the short term and in the long term? Is there an anti-methane mineral or chemical? Or a way to capture and safely store the gas? Can we route it out of the atmosphere?

Just because the dinosaurs couldn't figure it out doesn't mean we cannot. Does it?

Officials: Now up to 30,000 sq. feet swallowed by giant Louisiana sinkhole in latest collapse — Almost 20 times bigger than original estimate — “It’s a concern” (PHOTO & VIDEO)

[link to enenews.com]

Excerpt from Soundwaves;

"As drilling in the Gulf of Mexico has progressed from shallow-water shelf depths (less than 200 m) to deep-water slope depths (more than 1,000 m), wells have come to penetrate the gas-hydrate-stability zone."

Last Edited by El Quisqueyano on 11/01/2012 08:19 AM

Another statement from USGS confirming BP Macondo well destabilized a Methane Hydrate pocket;

"Because drilling can bring warm fluids up from depth, potentially melting the shallower gas hydrate, many researchers and engineers anticipate that drilling through gas hydrate may pose a hazard to the stability of the well, the platform anchors, the tethers, or even entire platforms."

When BP breached the Methane Hydrate the well became unstable and blew. This is what caused the GOM spill. Now we have a bigger problem ahead of us.

Lot's and lot's of venting will have to be done to try and alleviate the pressure. But venting on a massive scale.